(2022-09-28). Washington admits to conducting biological research on low-income Ukrainians: Russian media. ecns.cn The U.S. delegation in Geneva has admitted that Washington had been conducting biological research on low-income citizens from Ukraine at a meeting of the states parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
(2022-09-28). Report: US Preparing $1.1 Billion Arms Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The US is preparing a new $1.1 billion arms package for Ukraine that will be announced soon, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing unnamed US officials. The weapons package will likely include HIMARS rocket systems, HIMARS ammunition, counter-drone systems, radar systems, training, and technical support. The arms package is expected to be provided to Kyiv using the …
(2022-09-28). Sanctions on Russia Opens Markets for US Weapons Makers: White House Official. news.antiwar.com Sanctions that make it harder for Russia to export military equipment create an "opportunity" for US weapons makers to find new markets, a White House official "As a practical matter, countries that have had to rely on Russian equipment are going to find it very difficult to get even basic supplies from Russia's defense industrial base," Cara Abercrombie, the National Security Council's director of defense policy and arms con…
(2022-09-28). Saturday 10/8: The California Propositions Demystified. indybay.org
(2022-09-28). Xi Jinping visits exhibition themed "Forging Ahead in the New Era," stresses vigorousness, resoluteness and solidarity in striving for new success of socialism with Chinese characteristics. ecns.cn Xi Jinping visited an exhibition themed "Forging Ahead in the New Era" at Beijing Exhibition Center on September 27.
(2022-09-27). 'We've Incentivized Corporations To Go After This Price-Gouging Strategy'. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: In a section labeled "Core of the matter," the Economist declared: "Despite rosier figures, America still has an inflation problem. Is higher unemployment the only cure?" | I guess we're meant to find solace in the idea that the magazine thinks there might conceivably be other responses, in addition to what we are to understand is the proven one: purposely throwing people out of work, with all of the life-changing harms that come with that. | CNBC's story, "Inflation Fears Spur Shoppers to Get an Early Jump on the Year-End Holidays," encouraged us to think that "inflation is a Scrooge." | So[mdash…
(2022-09-27). What Would We Do Without Police, Prisons, Surveillance, Borders, Wars, Nukes, and Capitalism? Watch and See! davidswanson.org
(2022-09-27). Rural County Jails Are Now The Main Driver Of Mass Incarceration. popularresistance.org All across the United States, city and state governments have increasingly turned to fines and fees to make up for budget shortfalls. This has required a corresponding explosion in police department budgets, creating a perverse cycle where local governments must consistently expand policing in order to continue to pay for policing. Rural America has not escaped this trend, and a new Vera Institute report has found that small and rural counties are now the main drivers of growth in the prison industrial complex. According Vera's research, the boom in county jails appears to be driven by an increased amount of peop…
(2022-09-27). Talk World Radio: Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. davidswanson.org
(2022-09-27). Weapons Firms Install Staff Inside UK Ministry of Defense. scheerpost.com 
Ministry of Defence (MoD) Main Building in Whitehall, London. Harland Quarrington, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via By Lucas Amin / More than paid employees of global arms companies are working inside the UK's Ministry of Defence, openDemocracy can reveal, sparking questions about conflicts of interest and national security. | They include n…
(2022-09-26). Is That a Chilling Echo of Dr. Strangelove We Are Hearing from Biden's Nominee to Oversee America's Nuclear Weapons Arsenal? covertactionmagazine.com Anthony J. Cotton Says if Confirmed He Will Prepare U.S. Army Officers to Deploy Nuclear Weapons—Which is No Longer Unthinkable Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove featured an unhinged Air Force General named Jack D. Ripper, who orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union after he becomes convinced that the Soviets were polluting …
(2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.